The First Warlord of the Republic of China

Chapter 73: The Amazing Railway Plan

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spn Shanghai, ten miles foreign market!

This is the wealthiest place in China, with the highest wages.

With the emergence of Huadong Group, Shanghai has undergone earth-shaking changes.

First of all, there are a lot of neon lights in Shili Yangchang, and there are many advertising signs made of diodes, which make Shili Yangchang extraordinarily gorgeous at night.

This is the magic city! [

The most cosmopolitan metropolis.

These neon lights and diodes are all patented technologies owned by Huadong Group, and these patented technologies are constantly creating benefits.

On this day, a new "Xian Shi Department Store" was opened in Shanghai, and the second department store finally appeared in Shanghai, and the competitor of Huadong Department Store came.

Xiangshan people began to expand to Shanghai.

The four major department stores in Shanghai in history were opened by Xiangshan people.

On the opening day of Xianshi Department Store, there were dragon and lion dances, firecrackers and firecrackers, and the scene was very lively. Those who came to watch the magic show, those who came to eat snacks, those who came to buy cheap goods, and those who came to see fresh ones directly blocked Nanjing Road for two Hours, but it is still a bit worse than the five-hour record of blocking Nanjing Road when Huadong Department Store opened in the past.

Xianshi Department Store was rented from that vampire in Hartung, and a six-story western-style building was built there.It took more than a year to complete the construction, and the construction team of the East China Group was responsible for the construction. The progress of the construction was very surprising. The appearance of Xianshi Department Store was quickly reported to Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu was very surprised by this, four years earlier?

Where did Ma Yingbiao, the owner of Xianshi Department Store, get his money?

It was only after investigation that it turned out that the loan was from East China Bank, and Ma Yingbiao used department stores in Hong Kong and Guangdong as mortgages to East China Bank for a loan of 200 million yuan.

Facing the emergence of competitors, Jiang Yu immediately asked Zhou Ziyue to adjust his business strategy.

Three days later, when the business of Xian Shi Department Store was doing well, Huadong Department Store suddenly appeared a novelty - an escalator.

The world's first escalator appeared in Shanghai Huadong Department Store.

Immediately, Shanghai residents were shocked. They heard that there was a ladder that could go upstairs without moving, and flocked to Huadong Department Store.

Nanjing Road was blocked for half a day that day.

The traffic in Huadong Department Store is huge. The elevators have been played back and forth many times by the Shanghai citizens who heard the news. This thing is like the piano ladder of later generations. The elevators were played back and forth within half a month. broken.

But in the past half month, Shanghai Huadong Department Store has an average daily customer flow of 9 people, and on Sundays, Nanjing Road is even more blocked.

A large number of people flowed into Shanghai Huadong Department Store, which made the business of Xianshi Department Store bleak during this period, and also made Shanghai Huadong Department Store a huge profit, with a turnover of more than 100 million yuan in half a month.

Shanghai Huadong Department Store has also started a comprehensive business reform. First, it launched one-yuan products. This one-yuan product is a way to package and sell defective and cheap products, which is very popular among consumers. [

Shanghai Huadong Department Store also placed the broadcasting room below and built a glass wall so that customers can see the announcer inside to attract customers.

There is a roof garden on the top floor, and there is a cafeteria below. There are a lot of snacks in this cafeteria. The price for children is extremely cheap, almost only the cost price.

The salesperson has also adopted many female salespersons, and has received unified training at the same time, and the service is warm and thoughtful.

At the same time, the prices of the products produced by the various factories under the East China Group, as well as the products produced by the members of the East China Chamber of Commerce, are 5% to 30% higher than those for East China Department Store when they are shipped to Xian Shi Department Store. %.

Huadong Department Store in Shanghai and other major cities sells a lot of cheap goods, and these cheap goods are not available in Xianshi Department Store.

During the fierce offensive of Huadong Department Store in Shanghai, Xianshi Department Store was half-dead for a while. After struggling for half a year, Ma Yingbiao finally sold most of the shares of Xianshi Department Store to Huadong Group.

Huadong Group then stopped its suppression of Xianshi Department Store and injected capital into Xianshi Department Store. The purchase price cost of Huadong Department Store and Xianshi Department Store became the same.

In the ensuing years, the two major department stores launched a series of benign competitions.

However, Huadong Department Store is still the largest department store in China. The owner of Xianshi Department Store is actually the same as Huadong Department Store, but at least in the eyes of ordinary people, Huadong Department Store is no longer the only department store, and the market is competitive.

After Ma Yingbiao sold most of the shares of Xianshi Department Store, he was still the actual operator. Although the shares were relatively small, he still made a lot of money later.

There are many examples in other industries like the department store industry.

When Huadong Group faced the appearance of competitors, it first resorted to suppression methods, and even mobilized gang forces to intimidate and threaten, but it seldom did anything absolutely.

The acquired company quickly became a new player in the market after capital injection from Huadong Group.

At the same time, the Northwest Group also entered various industries one after another, and there was a market competition that made ordinary people feel very fierce.

But under the surface of this fierce competition, both competitors abide by the price bottom line and limited means, and have not fallen into a vicious circle of vicious competition.

The emergence of healthy competition has made the business operation experience of various industries in China continue to increase, and the production technology is also continuously improved.

The department stores, power companies, water companies, construction companies, advertising companies, catering companies, post and telecommunications bureaus, pharmacies, etc. under Jiang Yu's consortium have a tendency to expand rapidly to all parts of the country as the territory continues to expand.

In May of the Kuichou year, the "Global Ocean Company" under the Huadong Group was formally established. At this time, the Global Ocean Company already owned 5 ocean-going ships with a total tonnage of 21 tons.

East China Group's "Short Sea Shipping Company" has 68 ships in the Yangtze River and 106 ships in the coastal waterway.

These small ships were all manufactured by the Hangzhou Shipyard, and some were manufactured by the shipyard established by Jiang Yu's father-in-law.

In the Yangtze River, the business of Swire Shipping Company and Jardine Shipping Company was bleak under the competition of East China Group, because the boatmen in the Yangtze River Basin began to boycott foreign ships, and the goods of East China Chamber of Commerce would not be transported by foreign ships in the Yangtze River Basin. All were called to take the ships of short-sea shipping companies.

As a last resort, Swire and Jardine began to fight a price war, and China Merchants Steamship was annexed by Huadong Group long ago, and Sheng Xuanhuai's shares were directly confiscated by the Lianghuai Administration. [

Sheng Xuanhuai fled to Japan in 5000 and returned to China after the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. His total assets reached nearly [-] million yuan.

Sheng Xuanhuai had a lot of children, and they married everywhere, so Jiang Yu naturally became a popular candidate for the Sheng family's marriage, but Jiang Yu almost vomited after seeing the photos of Sheng Xuanhuai's daughters.

Fat pig flow ah there is wood!

For this reason, Jiang Yu directly rejected this bullshit marriage. With the current power of the East China Consortium, there is no need for any marriage.If you look good, you will be so-so when you marry into the family. The problem is that you are too fat.

Moreover, Sheng Xuanhuai colluded with Japan and fled to Japan. Such a traitor, Jiang Yu, would naturally not give a good face. If Sheng Xuanhuai lived in the concession and couldn't clean it up for a while, Jiang Yu would have sent people to copy Sheng Xuanhuai's house.

Since Jiangyu occupied East China, the business in East China has flourished, and the life of ordinary people has gradually become better, and they have started to have money in their hands.

Especially after the one billion pound loan, the money was poured into commercial investment and industrial construction, and the people in East China basically didn't say they couldn't afford to eat.

In mid-May, Jiang Yu brought the Yishi sisters to Shanghai under the protection of a company of guards.

The stock exchange that was closed by the Lianghuai Administration in the year of [-] was re-established on this day, and the 'Shanghai Stock Exchange' officially opened on this day.

The situation in the Balkans is already extremely tense. The First World War is about to break out. Western capital will try to make waves in the Chinese stock market for a period of time in the future. Jiang Yu took advantage of this opportunity to reopen the stock exchange.

After the opening of the stock exchange, a total of more than 30 companies' stocks were listed and traded.

On the opening day, in addition to Jiang Yu, many members of the East China Chamber of Commerce attended the opening ceremony, and Shanghai celebrities also came to join in because of Jiang Yu's presence.

At exactly nine o'clock, the bell rang, and the eagerly awaited stockholders rushed into the stock exchange with their money, and the stocks of more than 30 listed companies were snapped up in just one day.

Jiang Yu happily looked at the popular stock exchange.

"Jiang Yu, didn't you say you want to monopolize? Why did you sell the stock again?" Yi Weijun asked Jiang Yu strangely. After getting in touch with Jiang Yu these days, she found that Jiang Yu's halo-filled surface was actually He is a monopoly capitalist who uses all means.

For a moment, that stalwart image collapsed.

Just like the world thinks that Napoleon is a great military strategist, but the people around Napoleon are not very cold.

Therefore, Yi Weijun didn't respect Jiang Yu as much.

"Attracting private funds can make the industry develop faster, but those are secondary, and the main focus is still railway stocks." Jiang Yu smiled proudly, "In the next five or six years, railway stocks will rise all the way, and then form a flock Effect, so that most of the country's private funds are invested in railway construction, and then a large number of railways are built."

"Then didn't you say that the railway should be in your hands?" Yi Weijun asked puzzled.

"That's not necessary. When the railways are almost built in the future, it will be enough to let the central government nationalize a railway. At that time, let the central government give the consortium a more favorable transportation price, and these railways will be in their own hands. "Jiang Yu naturally planned it long ago.

If the East China Group is allowed to build the railways by itself, it would be too expensive, and it is really unaffordable to build a large number of railways.

That can only learn from the United States.

The U.S. consortium raised the railway stocks all the way, and then attracted a large amount of private capital to invest in the railways, and then when the railway stocks were as high as possible, they dumped the railway stocks one after another, and first made a lot of money.

Then there would be hundreds, if not hundreds, of railroad companies on the market.

At this time, the central government nationalized all the railways on the grounds that the management of the railway system was chaotic. At this time, the stock prices of the railways were extremely cheap.

After the nationalization of the railway, the central government has already owed the consortium a lot of money at this time. At this price, the central government must give the consortium preferential transportation policies.

Operators outside the consortium will have to pay higher freight charges.

Under the preferential freight rate, the railway operation must be at a loss, but the money is borne by the central government, which means that the consortium is embezzling the government's money.

Once this plan is successful, it will not only build a large number of railways in China, but also allow the Jiangyu consortium to firmly monopolize industrial production and commercial sales.

It's on the click list, thank you students for your support!I went to tackle key problems yesterday, drank till two o'clock in the morning, and my head is still dizzy, but there are at least two updates today!

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